Tom Krieglstein
Tom is the Founder and Lead Facilitator of Swift Kick. Since 2004, Tom has trained over 850,000 leaders around the US and the world including England, South Korea, Indonesia, and Bermuda on how to build a Culture of Connection™ within their organization. He has trained leaders at some of the largest companies in the world such as Coca-Cola, Pfizer, Apple, and Nike. Through his speaking, he holds an unprecedented 7 National Speaking Titles from APCA. He is a TEDx speaker, held a Guinness World Record, and he sat on the boards for both the NYC Entrepreneurs’ Organization for 5 years and the NYC National Speaker's Associating for two years. Tom's award-winning program, Dance Floor Theory™, is recognized as the standard best practice for increasing community member engagement and retention rates. Organizations both small and as large as the U.S. Military have brought Tom in to train and deploy his methodology to turn apathy into action.
Education Reform: The Polarizing Debate
The rebel valedictorian graduation speech generated 500 comments and over 160K views. Some people wrote one liners while others wrote dissertations that are bookmarked for a rainy day. What became distinctly clear was how polarizing the comments were. People either applauded Erica for her courage to stand up to a broken system…
While others took the opportunity to criticize Erica for being self indulgent, juvenile, and grammatically incorrect…
And then there were the head scratchers…
It's amazing how one post can generate such a debate with no clear winner or loser. A lot has to do with the topic…education. If you thought everyone had an opinion about health care reform, wait till we start education reform.
Education, like health care, has an amazing ability to trigger heated debates. I think it stems from the fact that we all have a first hand experience in both and thus feel we have a right to our seemingly correct judgement.
The problem is that many of our judgements come from an individual, or anecdotal, experience, not from education research. A study of one isn't a study, it's an opinion. First hand experience doesn't automatically qualify someone as an expert. Just look at the Autism vs Vaccination debate for evidence of such. We have a right to our opinion but let's not claim it as THE way to reform education.
In the end, one comment tried to suspended judgement of Erica's critic of the education system that most of us can agree with…
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